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is this a joke?

2% is an approximation that is generally quite good, but you should really be calculating your own maximum risk based on the Kelly criterion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion

why would anyone sacrifice a profitable system for anything, even common sense?

... and it's about HFT, not dark pools.

not retail. he's offering a service for mutual funds. as he said, using "neural net pattern recognition and all that jargon" that will apparently detect when orders are being front-run.

over what time period did you put these stats together?

http://www.scribd.com/doc/17887046/AmaranthQ1Q2-Investor-Letter-2009

Got this in the mail: From: Markus Heitkoetter [mailto:elitetrader-cb@topica.email-publisher.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 8:30 PM Subject: I am giving away my bestselling book: The Complete Guide To Day Trading Through my friends at Infinity Futures, I am giving away my bestselling...

What planet are you living on? The programmer is putting up many man-hours on something that very well may never work, and he may never see a cent, - and you say he's not taking any risk? If you're looking for a programmer who's not taking any risks, pay them by the hour like normal people.

In comparision to Ninja, it's really fast and light (ninja is a memory/processor hog). It's charts are not as pretty as ninja's but it's got all the standard tech analysis. Like ninja, you can write your own C++ indicators and automated trading code. also, sierra support is actually quite...

I myself use Sierra Charts ($25/month) with a free feed from my broker (Infinity). the feed is fast and so is sierra. it works great. they also have all the usual tech analysis. you can write your own c++ extensions too. the only issue i have is with backtesting. it's inaccurate. if you run...

yeah but the market always takes the stairs up and the elevator down.

Go to Control Panel-> Mouse You should be able to disable the touchpad in one of the tabs.

haha nice 1.

Some more information would help: is it an external or internal mouse? is it a wireless mouse? also, it appears that besides drifting on it's own, the mouse button is also being clicked, transferring the cursor to another location. this reminds me of a prank we once played where we had a...

Hi ed, I'm not following your reasoning here. what does this have to do with their automated trading software that was stolen? seems they have atleast reasonable cause to raise the target for BTU.

aww, come on, he had 'only intended to collect "open source" files on which he had worked but "later realized that he had obtained more files than he intended"'. http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5653U020090706

Can you give us a reason to check out the site? why is it better than a regular prop firm?

But it says right there in the description of TTM : * In only minutes you can fit this self adaptive system to your own trading style http://www.tradethemarkets.com/products/item46.cfm

Love this chart from the article: Here is a snapshot of a dynamic view of a market with limit order book transparency from Oculus Information’s Visible Marketplace (c. 2004 Oculus Information). Layers on the book show grouped sizes at each price. As with all of these graphics, the...